Virtue, Fortune, and Faith De Goede Marieke
Virtue, Fortune, and Faith De Goede Marieke Less than two centuries ago finance - today viewed as the center of economic necessity and epitome of scientific respectability - stood condemned as…
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Virtue, Fortune, and Faith De Goede Marieke
Less than two centuries ago finance - today viewed as the center of economic necessity and epitome of scientific respectability - stood condemned as disreputable fraud. A unique cultural history of modern financial markets from the early eighteenth century to the present day, the book offers a genealogical reading of the historical insecurities, debates, and controversies that had to be purged from nascent credit practices in order to produce the image of today's coherent and - largely - rational global financial sphere. How this change in status came about, and what it reveals about the nature of finance, is the story told in Virtue, Fortune, and Faith.
Using a deft integration of feminist and poststructuralist approaches, her book demonstrates that finance - Marieke de Goede discusses moral, religious, and political transformations that have slowly naturalized the domain of finance.